Comment on Zootopia

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know what they stand for, I’m just not sure what real difference there is in the content. They generally seem to be basically the same to me.

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.” for G

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    “Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents urged to give “parental guidance”. May contain some material parents might not like for their young children.” for PG

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mayve I’m not explaining myself properly…

      I mean when I see a G rated movie and a PG rated movie, I am not sure what it was that gave the PG rated movie the “higher” rating on the scale. It’s already entirely subjective, but if it’s rated PG I can’t think of any content it would have that a G rated movie would not also have.

      Does that make sense?

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      • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As a parent with young kids, G movies will literally have nothing scary at all. Both PG or G won’t have vulgar words, but PG might have like “butt” or something very minorly offensive.

        For example, in Zootopia, there are some “intense” scenes where the animals go feral and chase other animals. The chased animals look terrified for their lives. This can cause some younger kids to get scared/frightened by those scenes. In a G movie, there would be nothing that intense. Zootopia also has some innuendo humor, e.g. the scene where the fox takes the rabbit cop to an animal “nudist” yoga club. G movies wouldn’t have that type of humor.

        Hope that clears it up for you.

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      • 93maddie94@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think usually there’s more crude humor, possibly words like “damn”, “hell”, or “ass”, and it can be a little scarier/darker in PG movies versus G. But I agree that it seems pretty arbitrary and there’s no public list of what’s allowed in each that I’ve been able to find.

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      • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You must not have kids

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      • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I see. This site should clear things up: www.filmratings.com/ratings-guide/

        If a movie still feels like its PG rating should be G then maybe it’s just because of a minor detail (as viewed from a normal adult’s perspective) that changed it to be PG. I bet a lot of studios aim for a G rating but fail because of some scenes. That would mean that many movies (PG and G) feel like they are aimed at roughly the same age group but some fail to cut a scene where, let’s say a panda is taking a shower. The rating team says it’s depicting nudity, even though a panda naturally doesn’t wear clothes. It gets rated PG and feels like a G otherwise.

        Something like that with a bit more back and forth between the raters and the studios, I guess.

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think there really is a difference since the MPAA are a cabal of nutjobs who make decisions out of their asses.

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    PG just means “you can’t get mad at us if your kid gets scared”

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